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Future discussion topics

Meeting: 10/03/2021 - Joint Staff Consultative Committee (Item 27)

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To consider the subjects for debate at future meetings of the Committee and review discussion topics previously considered by the Committee.

Decision:

Members considered which subjects should be discussed at future meetings and:

 

IT WAS AGREED:

 

(1)  That the discussion topic for the next meeting be as follows:

 

(i)            The Employee Assistance Programme

 

(2)  That the discussion topic of the challenges and rewards of home working and the return to office work be considered at the meeting after next;

 

(3)  That an Employment Law Update should be presented in the next civic year;

 

(4)  That regular updates on the work of the Inclusion Group be provided to the Committee.

 

 

REASON FOR DECISION: To enable the Committee to choose a discussion topic of interest.

Minutes:

Audio Recording – 1 hour 7 minutes.

 

Members considered which subjects should be discussed at future meetings and the following points were considered:

 

·                Lockdown restrictions may not have been lifted by June and a paper on the challenges and rewards of home working presented then may be premature;

·                Any paper presented for June would have to be researched and written in the months prior;

·                The conversation regarding a return to office working would have progressed by June so that meeting could be an opportunity to provide feedback;

·                The Employee Assistance Programme was worth considering;

·                The challenges and rewards of home working item had been on the list for a long time and when originally proposed was not purely focussed on COVID;

·                It had been a long time since the Committee had received an update on employment law.

 

IT WAS AGREED:

 

(1)  That the discussion topic for the next meeting be as follows:

 

(i)            The Employee Assistance Programme

 

(2)  That the discussion topic of the challenges and rewards of home working and the return to office work be considered at the meeting after next;

 

(3)  That an Employment Law Update should be presented in the next civic year;

 

(4)  That regular updates on the work of the Inclusion Group be provided to the Committee.

 

REASON FOR DECISION: To enable the Committee to choose a discussion topic of interest.